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TITAN STEAMER REACHES PORT Lusitania Sets Time Between New York and Europe* BREAKS THE RECORD Hakes the Trip From Queenstown in Five Days, One Hour and Thirty- Fire Minutes. Anew steamboat record between a European port and New York was made by the Cunard line's new giant turbine ship, the Lusitania, which arrived in New York Friday morn ing. The Lusitania left Queenstown, the nearest trans-Atiantic port to New York at 12:10 a. m., Sunday, and arrived at the Sandy Hook lightship at 8:05 a. m. Friday, tasking the time for the trip five days, one hour and thirty-three minutes. This Is five hours and fifty minutes better than the previous Queenstown- New York record of five days, seven hours and twenty-three minutes, held by the Lucania of the same line. While the Lusitania has made anew record for the time, a passenger is actually on board ship, she has not beaten the average speed per hour recorded by the Kaiser Wilhelm 11, which lias made 23.58 knots per hour from New York to Plymouth, and the Deutchland, with a record of 23.51 knots per hour to Plymouth, having made the latter time. The Lusitania’s *-l>eed per hour on her maiden voy age la estimated at 23.01 knots per hour. The new ship was decked with flags and bunting when she made her ap pearance off Sandy Hook Friday morning, her four big red funnels lend ing color to the picture which was marred by the prevailing haze. A good sight of the beautiful vessel was had from shore for only a short while. Her passengers lined the rail ings and crowded the different decks ■of the large vessel, waving handker chiefs and American and British flags. The marine observatory stations on shore dipped their flags in salute, other vessels in the lower bay blew tlielr whistles in greeting, and the Lusitania's blue ensign was constantly lowered and raised again in acknowl edgment of the reception given her. She steamed slowly up the bay for the new Ambrose channel, dug espec ially for vessela of great draft, and which she will be the first to use in entering the port of New York. While the giant Cunarder swept up the bay, she was given a clamorous greeting by an immense fleet of eteara crafts, which had congregated off the quarantine station to await her arrival. rsearly every one of the yachts, tow boats and other steamers was crowded with passengers, well supplied with horns und other noise uvaking deviees, and at times even the steamships were almost drowned by the toots and cheers. The Lusitania presented a magnifi cent picture as she slowly drew up at the quarantine. Her ke'ou, high bow. beautifully sym metrical lines and finely modeled stern, marked her a truly grey hound. The first sight of New York which the passengers on the big steamer gained was one of welcome. From the highest point of the towering Singer .building on Broadway, the tallest building on Broadway, there had been strung a series of signal flags which In the marine code spelled ‘ welcome.’' The fluttering greeting was 600 feet above Manhattan’s greater thorough fare and could be seen far down the bay. For the past three years every one interested in shipping has been watching the express steamers build iug for the Cunard Line. Ever since the pioneer "Brittania." with her 1,154 tons and a speed of S 1-2 knots, made her tuittal voyage in 1840, this com pany has gone steadily forward, each new conception outdoing the previous one, until in the Lusitania, launched June 7. 1906, the very acme of marina architecture was reached. The dimensions of this mammoth ship convey but vaguely her size— the figures are as follows: Length, 790 feet; breadth, 68 feet; depth (.moulded), 60 feet; gross tonnage. 32.- 500 tous; displacement tonnage, 45,- 0 0 tons, load draught, 37 feet 6 Inches; height of funnels, 24 feet; height of masts, 216 feet. UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES Enrage Women of Paris, Who Give Vent to Their Feelings in Great Street Demonstration. The rising indignation of the French masses against the escape from the guillotine of Soleillant, known as the "monstrous violator and murderer,” whose sentence to death for the atrocious murderer of a 12-year-old girl, was commuted last week by President Fa!liere3 to life imprisonment, was expressed in Paris Sunday in a series of the most cu rious public manifestations that have occurred in France for a long time. The demonstration, despite the fact that several arrests were made, was almost entirely orderely. Many women participated. The protest was organ ized not so much against Soleillant as to express the voice of the populace against the wave of unspeakable crimes committed on little girls which lately has increased to an alarming degree and which, it is feared, the commutation of the sentence of Sole- Hlant will only stimulate. Several thousand persons were en gaged in demonstrations at various points of the city and especially large was the crowd in the Place Saint Ambrolse, near which lived little Mar tha Eberding, the victim of Soleil lant. The rage of the women of the district has been great since Presi dent Fallieres showed clemency to Soleillant. They assembled Sunday afternoon with their husbands and other of the sympathizers and were augmented in numbers by crowds of curious persons. Their orderly cries for justice were quickly changed to cries of “death to Soleillant,” and "down with Fallieres,” as the proces sion, led by a woman, who carried a little girl on her shoulders, with the purpose of indicating the object of manifestation, moved toward the Place de la Republique. Soon the streets were choked by a vast mob and the police reserves were called out to dis perse it. The paarde, however, as sembled again, and several of the more violent demonstrators were ar rested. The newspapers of Paris are devot ing great space to the Soleillant case. Many of them loudly condemn the failure of President Falllieres to per mit the law to take Its course, and all of them agree that the coramuta tatlon of this sentence signifies the passing for ever of the guillotine from France. Some of the journals ex press the opinion that the escape of Soleillant from the guillotine ooly places a premium on crime. The entire question of crime will be taken up at the approaching ses sion of parliament, especially as Paris and other large cities are becoming alarmingly Infested with another type of criminal known as “the apache,” who in the secluded sections, almost dally maim and rob and sometimes murder their vtcitims. Their weapons always are knives, and, gathering in I)ahds, they often wantonly stab pedes trians and frequently policemen mere ly for the sake of stabbing. M. Touny, director of the Paris po lice, declared that his force was en tirely insufficient to cope with the situation. He recommended the adop tion of corporal punishment for breakers as an offset to comfortable and inviting prisons. GETTING READY FOR IMMIGRANTS. City Council of Savannah to Watch After New Comers from Austria. A committee from the Savannah city council is busily engaged ia mak ing preparations for the immigrants that are expected to reach the city next month from Trieste, Austria. There will be about 170 in the party. They will be distributed throughout Georgia. Many of them, it is (bought, will elect to go to the plantations, as they are of a class that has bean largely devoted to agriculture. WOMAN KILLS ASSAILANT. Defends Honor by Shooting Man Who At tempted to Assault Her. News reached Woodville, Miss., Fri day of the fatal shooting of Nicholas Messenger by Mrs. Aiuauda Hum phreys in the country about four miles northeast of the town. Mrs. Humphreys used a revolver, Messenger dying al most immediately. Mrs. Humphreys appeared before a magistrate and was released ou hail. It is understood she will plead the unwritten law. claiming that Messen ger attempted to asault her. MANY MANGLED IN RAIL CRASH Fast Trains Come Together Dealing Grim Death and Destruction. 24 DEAD AND 27 HURT Horror Occurred on Boston & Maine Rail way and Was Result of Mistaken Or ders—Scene Was Frightful. A fearful head-on collision between the southbound Quebec express and a northbound freight train on the Con cord division of the Boston and Maine railroad occurred four miles north of Canaan station, Vermont, early Sun day, due to a mistake in train dis patchers’ orders, and from a demolish ed passenger coach there were taken twenty-four dead and dying and twen ty-seven other passengers, most of them seriously wounded. Nearly all of those who were in the death car were returning from a fair at Sher brook, Quebec, 160 miles north. The conductor of the freight was given to understand that he had plen ty of time to reach a siding by the night operator at Canaan station, re ceiving, according to the superintend ent of the division ,a copy of the tel egram order from the train dispatcher at Concord, which confused the train number 30 and 34. The wreck oc curred Just after the express had rounded into a straight stretch of track, but, owing to the early morn ing mist neither engineer saw the other’s headlight until it was too late. The southbound train was made up at Sherbrook, where it picked up two sleepers from 'Quebec and two more on the way down. It consisted of the baggage car, passenger coach and smoking car in that order, with the sleepers in the rear. The train .’eft White River Juno tion, Vt., at 3:50 Sunday morning, for ty minutes late, and followed twenty minutes later by the Montreal Ex press over the Central Vermont. The Quebec express train is known as No. 30 and the Montreal train as No. 34. Meantime a northbound freight train known as No. 267 had arrived at Canaan, 18 miles down the road, at 4:10 a. m., on time. According to W. R. Ray, Jr., division superintendent, J. R. Crowley, the night train dis patcher at Concord, sent a dispatch to John Greeley, the night operator at Canaan, that No. 34 was one hour and ten minutes late. The order which Conductor Lawrence of the freight train showed after the accident dis tinctly states that No. 30 instead of No. 34 was an hour and ten min utes Conductor Lawrence, be lieving that he had sufficient time in the hour and ten minutes to reach the sidetrack at West Canaan, four miles beyond, before No. 30 reached it, ordered his train ahead. The su perintendent declared that the acci dent was due to the mistake in plac ing a cipher after the three in the number of the train instead of ia four. One of those who escaped said that as the train was rounding a curve someone in front of the car began to sing so that nearly every oue was awake when the crash came. Those who were in the other cars recovered their dazed senses, jumped out to the aide of the track and hurried to the demolished passenger coach, where groans, cries and shrieks were rend ing the air. Fortunately, with the engines off to one side, the wreckage did not take Are and add horror to the al ready dreadful scene. The train hands, ably seconded by the passengers from the sleeping cars, groped their way among the ruins and began the work of rescue. EXHIBIT BY GEORGIA MILLS To Be Made on Extensive Scale at Stat* Fair in Atlanta. One of the features of the Georgia state fair will be a comprehensive ex hibit by the various Georgia mills, members of the Georgia Industrial As sociation. Letters have been sent out from the Atlanta offices of the association to the 153 mills in the state which com prise the membership, requesting the owners of the mills to make their ex hibits at the fair. 1 THIEF COMES TO GRIEF Embezzler Letten Arrested While Contem plating Suicide —Spent Stolen Money On Negro Woman. Charles E. Letten, chief clerk in the office of the first district tax collec tor in New Orleans, who disappeared a few days ago, leaving a shortage of over one hundred thousand dollars, was discovered and arrested Thursday afternoon while standing on the bank of the Mississippi river attempting to summon up courage enough to jump in the water and commit suicide. He said he had started toward the water several times, but each time his cour age failed him. He made a full con fession. Letten said, when carried before the inspector of police and the grand jury, that he had spent the greater part of the money he had taken on a negro woman, who lives in a hand somely furnished house in the old French quarter of the city, and who is said to have bought considerable quantities of real estate. Letten says the greater part of the money he had given her had been invested in realty, only a comparatively small amount being devoted to her living expenses, and keeping up the house in which she lived. According to latest estimate made as to Letten’s shortage, he was about $107,000 short in his accounts when he disappeared. In the meantime he said he had been hiding in the weeds along the river w r hile the police of half a dozen southern cities were care fully watching every train and steam boat. Virginia Reed, the negress in the case, was at once arrested, and held as a witness. An attempt will be made to indict her as a principal in the defalcation. Her will, a copy of which was obtained, showed that she had made provision to give much of the stolen money to a church and to an orphanage. Letten had only 83 cents in his possession when arrested. MILLIONAIRE GOURDAIN INSANE- Goes Daft in Atlanta Pen and is Sent to Asylum in Washington. Louis A. Gourdain, the millionaire, who lived for a while in New Orleans and then in Chicago, but more recent ly an inmate of the federal prison in Atlanta, was sent from the latter in stitution Thursday to the government asylum for the insane in Washing ton. Accompanying Gourdain was John Peterson, who also became in sane while in the Atlanta federal pris on. Peterson was serving a sentence for robbing the United States mails. They made the trip to Washington under the guard of a company of fed eral officers, headed by Deputy Mar shal Rinard. Louis A. Gourdain was a few years ago tried on the charge of using the United States mails for fraudulent pur poses. While his case was hanging fire he came into sudden fame by his dec laration that he would use a part of his great wealth in the erection of a private prison if the United States did not provide him with one. A short time afterwards he was sen tenced and sent to prison a few months ago, being transferred to the Atlanta federal prison. |T AX ABLE VALUE OF SOUTHERN * In state of Georgia Fixed By Arbitration Board at $18,539,336. The value of the Southern system m Georgia has been placed at $18,539,- 336 by the board of arbitration, com posed of Hon. Roland Ellis, represent ing the road; Commissioner Stevens, representing the state, and Judge Mil ler, as umpire. From this award Commissioner Ste vens dissented, claiming that it was too low. The figures were $3,655,383 over the returns of the company, and $7,960,664 under what the comptroller general had assessed the property. AID ASKED FOR STRIKERS. President Gompers Issues Assistance Call in Behalf of Telegraphers. Asa result of a recent conference President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor will issue an ap peal for aid for the striking telegraph operators. “It will be,” said Mr. Gom per, “a general request to organized labor for assistance both finapeial and moral, in accordance with the pledge made at the recent meeting of the ex ecutive council of the federation.” HERITAGE OF CIVIL War^ Thousands of Soldiers Contract- Chronic Kidney Trouble While in the Service. The experience of Capt. John L Pi. of Cos. E, 17th Ohio, now living at East Second St.. Newton, KanJ twill interest the th on . sands of veterans who Civil VVacsuffering tor* tureswith kidney com? "I contracted kidnw trouble duringtheCivft \\ ar, and the occasions/ attacks finally devel °ped into a chronli case. At one time I had to use crutch and cane to get about, jj. back was lame and weak, and beside* the aching, there was a distressii* retention of the kidney secretions 1 was in a bad way when I began usini Doan’s Kidney Pills in 1901, but th remedy cured me, and I have beet well ever since.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y. NEW SPECIES. Brown Zebras and Black-Lined Ant* lopes Seen in Africa. Intimation concerning two nei species of animals, indigenous to At rica, has been conveyed to Europe by Mr. J. E. Speares, who has bee* spending several months in trapping and hunting big game in Portugew East Africa in the regions surrouni ing Lake Nangadi and the Rovunul River. One of these refers to a nei type of zebra, a whole herd of whicb the hunter observed near by, but i specimen of which ha failed to secure Many members of this herd wen marked differently to the type of this animal, the heads and necks being brown, while the bind quarters were striped in the convei tional manner peculiar to this quad ruped. When the natives were quen tinned upon the point, they asserted that they were a variety of zebrj but that they were becoming veq sarce. Although the hunter pursue the herd for several miles, owing t their agility and timidity he was un able to approach them closely. Upoi another occasion, however, he wj more fortunate and secured a close view of the animal. It resembles tb zebra In shape, but the head, necl fore-legs, and fore half of the bod were quite dark brown in color, tb hind part of the body, including tb legs, being striped. He also ered a peculiar type of antelope sldm ilar In size and shape to the Boer rol buck or irapala, the distinctive diffeii ence being a black line down til centre of the back and on either hiuJj leg down to the foot. When the asl mal is startled It immediately takl to flight, the initial leap being full ten feet through the-air. This sped* of antelope is essentially gregarioil being found in herd3 ranging fro* ten to fifty in number, and is el ceedingly wild and active. Mr. Spearl also secured what is believed to bel new species of buck which is pel fectly hornless, about as large asl steenbuck and possessing a brillial red coat. —Scientific American. 1 THE COMPELLING CAUSE, jl Little Millie: “Grandad, what mal* a man always give a woman a diam<® engagement ring?” Grandfather: “The woman.” —Pi® Me-Up. || HOW SHE KNEW. Him: “How did you first learn tb® you loved me?” Her: “I found that I got very an;® whenever I heard anybody calling f® a brainless idiot.” —Cleveland Lead® FOUND OUT. A Trained Nurse Made Discoverf-I No one is in better position! know the value of food and drl®, than a trained nurse. Speaking of coffee, a nurse i|| Wilkes Barre, Pa., writes: “I used® drink strong coffee myself and s®| fered greatly from headaches and®;,; digestion. While on a visit to ®| brothers I had a good chance to <® Postum Food Coffee, for they dra*| it altogether in place of ordinary <®| fee. In two weeks after using -' ® turn I found I was much beneS* and finally my headaches disappe and also the indigestion. “Naturally I have since used I*l turn among my patients, and have* ticed a marked benefit where col*| has been left off and Postum use( */®| “I observed a curious fact aw*| Postum when used among niotb* It greatly helps the flow of cases where coffee is inclined to it up, and where tea causes ae:' ro * ness. “I find trouble in getting serv* to make Postum properly. *g’ most always serve it before h *9 been boiled long enough. R be boiled 15 to 2 0 minutes after ing begins and served with c r e*| when it Is certainly a delicious age.” Read “The Road to Wei!™* in pkga. “There’s a Reason." | ,